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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 133

North West Canada 1885, no clasp (Nurse Mary Mackenzie Med. Staff.), re-engraved naming in upright serif capitals, very fine

Mary Mackenzie, from Toronto, trained at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. During the North West Canada campaign of 1885 she served at No. 2 Field Hospital at Moose Jaw, one of seven nurses to serve at the base hospital. A further five nurses served at No. 1 Field Hospital at Saskatoon - this being the advance hospital caring for casualties from the action at Fish Creek. At the conclusion of the campaign all 12 nurses received the N.W. Canada Medal without clasp. (ref. Honours and Awards to Women to 1914, by Norman Gooding).

Another Medal named to this recipient was held in the American Numismatic Society Collection (Morton & Eden, May 2006) and was then sold at DNW in September 2011 (£2,700 Hammer).

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£250